4th Canadian Parliament

The 4th Canadian Parliament was in session from 13 February 1879 until 18 May 1882 (3 years and 94 days). The membership was set by the 1878 federal election on 17 September 1878. It was dissolved prior to the 1882 election.

4th Canadian Parliament
Majority parliament
February 13, 1879 – May 18, 1882
Parliament leaders
Prime Minister	Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald October 17, 1878 – June 6, 1891
Cabinet	3rd Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	Alexander Mackenzie 17 October 1878 – 27 April 1880
	Edward Blake 4 May 1880 – 2 June 1887
Party caucuses
Government	Conservative Party & Liberal-Conservative
Opposition	Liberal Party
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the Commons	Joseph Godéric Blanchet 13 February 1879 – 7 February 1883
Members	206 seats MP seats List of members
Senate
Speaker of the Senate	The Hon. Robert Duncan Wilmot 7 November 1878 – 10 February 1880
	The Hon. Sir David Lewis Macpherson 11 February 1880 – 15 February 1880
	Amos Edwin Botsford 16 February 1880 – 18 April 1880
	The Hon. Sir David Lewis Macpherson 19 April 1880 – 16 October 1883
Government Senate Leader	Alexander Campbell 18 October 1878 – 26 January 1887
Opposition Senate Leader	Sir Richard William Scott 8 October 1878 – 27 April 1896
Senators	79 seats senator seats List of senators
Sovereign
Monarch	Victoria 1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901
Governor General	The Earl of Dufferin 25 June 1872 – 25 Nov. 1878
	The Duke of Argyll 25 Nov. 1878 – 23 Oct. 1883
Sessions
1st session 13 February 1879 – 15 May 1879
2nd session 12 February 1880 – 7 May 1880
3rd session 9 December 1880 – 21 March 1881
4th session 9 February 1882 – 17 May 1882
← 3rd → 5th

It was controlled by a Conservative/Liberal-Conservative majority under Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and the 3rd Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, first led by Alexander Mackenzie, and then by Edward Blake.

The Speaker was Joseph Godéric Blanchet. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1873-1882 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were four sessions of the 4th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	13 February 1879	15 May 1879
2nd	12 February 1880	7 May 1880
3rd	9 December 1880	21 March 1881
4th	9 February 1882	17 May 1882

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fourth parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district. Party leaders are italicized. Cabinet ministers are in boldface. The Prime Minister is both. The Speaker is indicated by "(†)".

Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

British Columbia

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Cariboo		Joshua Spencer Thompson (acclaimed) died in office 20 December 1880	Liberal-Conservative	1871
		James Reid from 31 March 1881	Liberal-Conservative	1881
New Westminster		Thomas Robert McInnes, until appointed to Senate 24 December 1881	Independent	1878
		Joshua Homer (acclaimed) from 9 March 1882	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Vancouver		Arthur Bunster	Liberal	1874
Victoria*		Sir John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
		Amor De Cosmos	Liberal	1871
Yale		Edgar Dewdney (acclaimed), resigned 30 May 1879 to become Indian Commissioner of Manitoba and the North West Territories	Conservative	1872
		Francis Jones Barnard from 29 September 1879	Conservative	1879

Manitoba

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Lisgar		John Christian Schultz (acclaimed)	Conservative	1871
Marquette		Sir John A. Macdonald (acclaimed)	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
		Joseph O'Connell Ryan (acclaimed) from 30 November 1878	Liberal	1874
Provencher		Joseph Dubuc (acclaimed)	Conservative	1878
		Joseph Royal from 30 December 1879	Conservative	1879
Selkirk		Donald A. Smith	Conservative	1871
		Thomas Scott from 10 September 1880	Conservative	1880

New Brunswick

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Albert		Alexander Rogers	Liberal	1878
Carleton		George Heber Connell	Independent	1878
		David Irvine from 16 February 1881	Liberal	1881
Charlotte		Arthur Hill Gillmor	Liberal	1874
City and County of St. John*		Isaac Burpee	Liberal	1872
		Charles Wesley Weldon	Liberal	1878
City of St. John		Samuel Leonard Tilley (acclaimed), re-elected 4 November 1878	Liberal-Conservative	1873, 1878
Gloucester		Timothy Warren Anglin (acclaimed)	Liberal	1867
Kent		Gilbert Anselme Girouard	Liberal-Conservative	1878
King's		James Domville	Conservative	1872
Northumberland		Jabez Bunting Snowball	Liberal	1878
Queen's		George Gerald King	Liberal	1878
Restigouche		George Haddow (acclaimed)	Independent	1878
Sunbury		Charles Burpee	Liberal	1867
Victoria		John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Westmorland		Albert James Smith	Liberal	1867
York		John Pickard	Independent Liberal	1868

Nova Scotia

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Annapolis		Avard Longley	Conservative	1878
Antigonish		Angus McIsaac	Liberal	1873
Cape Breton*		Hugh McLeod, died in office 5 August 1879	Liberal-Conservative	1878
		William McDonald	Conservative	1872
		William Mackenzie McLeod from 23 October 1879	Liberal-Conservative	1879
Colchester		Thomas McKay	Liberal-Conservative	1874
		Archibald McLelan from 18 June 1881	Conservative	1881
Cumberland		Charles Tupper (acclaimed), re-elected in by-election 4 November 1878	Conservative	1867
Digby		John Chipman Wade	Conservative	1878
Guysborough		Alfred Ogden	Conservative	1878
Halifax*		Matthew Henry Richey	Liberal-Conservative	1878
		Malachy Bowes Daly	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Hants		William Henry Allison	Conservative	1878
Inverness		Samuel McDonnell	Liberal	1872
Kings		Frederick William Borden	Liberal	1874
Lunenburg		Charles Edwin Kaulbach	Conservative	1878
Pictou*		James McDonald, acclaimed in by-election 4 November 1878, ended term 19 May 1881	Conservative	1872, 1878
		Robert Doull	Liberal-Conservative	1872, 1878
		John McDougald, acclaimed from 18 June 1881	Liberal-Conservative	1881
Queens		Silas Tertius Rand Bill	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Richmond		Edmund Power Flynn	Liberal	1874
Shelburne		Thomas Robertson	Liberal	1878
Victoria		Duncan McDonald	Liberal	1878
Yarmouth		Frank Killam	Liberal	1868

Ontario

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Addington		John McRory	Conservative	1878
Algoma		Simon James Dawson	Conservative	1878
Bothwell		David Mills	Liberal	1867
Brant North		Gavin Fleming	Liberal	1872
Brant South		William Paterson	Liberal	1872
Brockville		William Fitzsimmons	Conservative	1878
Bruce North		John Gillies	Liberal	1872
Bruce South		Alexander Shaw	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Cardwell		Thomas White	Conservative	1878
Carleton		John Rochester	Conservative	1872
Cornwall		Darby Bergin, re-elected in by-election 27 January 1880	Liberal-Conservative	1872, 1878
Dundas		John Sylvester Ross	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
Durham East		Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams	Conservative	1878
Durham West		Harvey William Burk until 10 October 1879	Liberal	1874
		Edward Dominick Blake, acclaimed from 17 November 1879	Liberal	1879
Elgin East		Thomas Arkell	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Elgin West		George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1872
Essex		James Colebrooke Patterson	Conservative	1878
Frontenac		George Airey Kirkpatrick	Conservative	1870
Glengarry		John McLennan	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Grenville South		John Philip Wiser	Liberal	1878
Grey East		Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	1878
Grey North		Samuel Johnathan Lane	Conservative	1878
Grey South		George Jackson	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
Haldimand		David Thompson	Liberal	1867
Halton		William McDougall	Liberal-Conservative	1867,[a] 1878
Hamilton*		Francis Edwin Kilvert	Conservative	1878
		Thomas Robertson	Liberal	1878
Hastings East		John White, re-elected in by-election 25 February 1879	Conservative	1871
Hastings North		Mackenzie Bowell, acclaimed in by-election 6 November 1878	Conservative	1867
Hastings West		James Brown	Conservative	1867
Huron Centre		Horace Horton until 10 October 1878	Liberal	1872
		Richard John Cartwright from 2 November 1878	Liberal	1878
Huron North		Thomas Farrow	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Huron South		Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal	1867, 1878
Kent		Rufus Stephenson	Conservative	1867
Kingston		Alexander Gunn	Liberal	1878
Lambton		Alexander Mackenzie	Liberal	1867
Lanark North		Daniel Galbraith, died in office 17 December 1879	Liberal	1872
		Donald Greenfield MacDonell from 22 January 1880	Liberal	1880
Lanark South		John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
Leeds North and Grenville North		Charles Frederick Ferguson	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Leeds South		David Ford Jones	Conservative	1874
Lennox		Edmund Hooper	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Lincoln		John Charles Rykert	Conservative	1878
London		John Carling	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
Middlesex East		Duncan Macmillan	Liberal-Conservative	1875
Middlesex North		Timothy Coughlin	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Middlesex West		George William Ross	Liberal	1872
Monck		Lachlin McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Muskoka		Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1872
Niagara		Patrick Hughes, defeated in by-election 20 March 1879	Liberal	1878
		Josiah Burr Plumb from 20 March 1879	Conservative	1879
Norfolk North		John Charlton	Liberal	1872
Norfolk South		William Wallace	Conservative	1874
Northumberland East		Joseph Keeler, died in office 21 January 1881	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
		Darius Crouter, acclaimed from 25 March 1881	Independent Liberal	1881
Northumberland West		James Cockburn until 14 November 1881	Conservative	1867, 1878
		George Guillet from 19 December 1881	Conservative	1881
Ontario North		George Wheler, until 10 June 1880, re-elected 28 August 1880	Liberal	1878
Ontario South		Francis Wayland Glen	Liberal	1878
Ottawa (City of)*		Joseph Merrill Currier	Liberal-Conservative	1867
		Joseph Tassé	Conservative	1878
Oxford North		Thomas Oliver, died in office 8 November 1880	Liberal	1867
		James Sutherland from 9 December 1880	Liberal	1880
Oxford South		James Atchison Skinner	Liberal	1874
Peel		William Elliott	Conservative	1878
Perth North		Samuel Rollin Hesson	Conservative	1878
Perth South		James Trow	Liberal	1872
Peterborough East		John Burnham	Conservative	1878
Peterborough West		George Hilliard	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Prescott		Félix Routhier	Conservative	1878
Prince Edward		James Simeon McCuaig	Conservative	1878
Renfrew North		Peter White	Conservative	1876
Renfrew South		William Bannerman	Conservative	1878
Russell		John O'Connor, acclaimed in by-election 4 November 1878	Conservative	1867, 1878
Simcoe North		Dalton McCarthy	Conservative	1872
Simcoe South		William Carruthers Little, died in office 31 December 1881	Liberal-Conservative	1867
		Richard Tyrwhitt, acclaimed from 16 February 1882	Conservative	1882
Stormont		Oscar Fulton	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Toronto Centre		Robert Hay	Liberal	1878
Toronto East		Samuel Platt	Independent	1875
Victoria North		Hector Cameron	Conservative	1875
Victoria South		Arthur McQuade	Conservative	1874
Waterloo North		Hugo Kranz	Conservative	1878
Waterloo South		Samuel Merner	Conservative	1878
Welland		Christopher William Bunting	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Wellington Centre		George Turner Orton	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Wellington North		George Alexander Drew	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
Wellington South		Donald Guthrie	Liberal	1876
Wentworth North		Thomas Bain	Liberal	1872
Wentworth South		Joseph Rymal	Liberal	1867
West Toronto		John Beverley Robinson until 30 June 1880	Conservative	1875
		James Beaty, Jr. from 28 August 1880	Conservative	1880
York East		Alfred Boultbee	Conservative	1878
York North		Frederick William Strange	Liberal-Conservative	1878
York West		Nathaniel Clarke Wallace	Conservative	1878

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Prince Edward Island

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
King's County*		Augustine Colin Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1873, 1878
		Ephraim Bell Muttart	Conservative	1878
Prince County*		James Yeo	Liberal	1873
		Edward Hackett	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Queen's County*		James Colledge Pope, acclaimed in by-election 9 November 1878	Conservative	1876
		Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken	Conservative	1878

Quebec

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Argenteuil		Thomas Christie, defeated in by-election 12 February 1880	Liberal	1875
		John Joseph Caldwell Abbott from 12 February 1880, acclaimed in by-election 17 August 1881	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1880
Bagot		Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, acclaimed in by-election 20 November 1880	Conservative	1874
Beauce		Joseph Bolduc	Conservative	1876
Beauharnois		Michael Cayley, died in office 3 December 1878	Conservative	1867, 1878
		Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron from 9 January 1879	Conservative	1879
Bellechasse		Achille Larue until 11 February 1881	Liberal	1878
		Guillaume Amyot from 19 March 1881	Conservative	1881
Berthier		Edward Octavian Cuthbert	Conservative	1875
Bonaventure		Théodore Robitaille	Conservative	1867
		Pierre-Clovis Beauchesne, acclaimed from 26 August 1879	Conservative	1879
Brome		Edmund Leavens Chandler	Liberal	1878
		David Ames Manson from 18 October 1880	Liberal-Conservative	1880
Chambly		Pierre Basile Benoit	Conservative	1876
Champlain		Hippolyte Montplaisir	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Charlevoix		Pierre Alexis Tremblay, died in office 5 January 1879	Liberal	1876
		Joseph-Stanislas Perrault from 13 February 1879	Conservative	1879
		Simon-Xavier Cimon from 19 March 1881	Conservative	1881
Châteauguay		Luther Hamilton Holton, died in office 14 March 1880	Liberal	1867
		Edward Holton from 17 April 1880	Liberal	1880
Chicoutimi—Saguenay		Marie Honorius Ernest Cimon	Conservative	1874
Compton		John Henry Pope, acclaimed in by-election 4 November 1878	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Dorchester		François Fortunat Rouleau	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Drummond – Arthabaska		Désiré Olivier Bourbeau	Conservative	1877
Gaspé		Pierre Fortin	Conservative	1867, 1878
Hochelaga		Alphonse Desjardins	Conservative	1874
Huntingdon		Julius Scriver (acclaimed)	Liberal	1869
Iverbville		François Béchard	Liberal	1867
Jacques Cartier		Désiré Girouard	Conservative	1878
Joliette		Louis François Georges Baby, acclaimed in by-election 14 November 1878	Conservative	1872
		Lewis Arthur McConville from 9 December 1880	Conservative	1880
Kamouraska		Joseph Dumont	Liberal	1878
L'Assomption		Hilaire Hurteau	Liberal-Conservative	1874
L'Islet		Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal	1872
Laprairie		Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative	1867
Laval		Joseph-Aldric Ouimet (acclaimed)	Liberal-Conservative	1873
Lévis		Joseph-Goderic Blanchet (†)	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
Lotbinière		Côme Isaïe Rinfret	Liberal	1878
Maskinongé		Frédéric Houde	Nationalist Conservative	1878
Mégantic		Louis-Éphrem Olivier	Liberal	1878
Missisquoi		George Barnard Baker	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Montcalm		Firmin Dugas	Conservative	1871
Montmagny		Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry	Conservative	1878
Montmorency		Pierre-Vincent Valin until 9 January 1880, re-elected 9 December 1880	Conservative	1878, 1880
		Auguste-Réal Angers from 14 February 1880 until 12 November 1880	Conservative	1880
Montreal Centre		Michael Patrick Ryan	Liberal-Conservative	1868
Montreal East		Charles-Joseph Coursol	Conservative	1878
Montreal West		Matthew Hamilton Gault	Conservative	1878
Napierville		Sixte Coupal dit la Reine	Liberal	1874
Nicolet		François Xavier Ovide Méthot	Independent Conservative	1877
Ottawa (County of)		Alonzo Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Pontiac		John Poupore	Conservative	1878
Portneuf		Roch-Pamphile Vallée	Conservative	1878
Quebec County		Joseph-Philippe-René-Adolphe Caron, acclaimed in by-election 20 November 1880	Conservative	1873
Quebec East		Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
Quebec West		Thomas McGreevy (acclaimed)	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Quebec-Centre		Jacques Malouin	Independent	1877
Richelieu		Louis Huet Massue	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Richmond—Wolfe		William Bullock Ives	Conservative	1878
Rimouski		Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset	Liberal	1872
Rouville		George-Auguste Gigault	Conservative	1878
Saint Maurice		Louis-Léon Lesieur Désaulniers	Conservative	1867, 1878
Shefford		Lucius Seth Huntington	Liberal	1867
Town of Sherbrooke		Edward Towle Brooks (acclaimed)	Conservative	1872
Soulanges		Jacques-Philippe Lanthier	Conservative	1872
St. Hyacinthe		Louis Tellier	Conservative	1878
St. John's		François Bourassa	Liberal	1867
Stanstead		Charles Carroll Colby	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Témiscouata		Paul-Étienne Grandbois	Conservative	1878
Terrebonne		Louis-Rodrigue Masson, acclaimed in by-election 6 November 1878	Conservative	1867
Three Rivers		William McDougall	Conservative	1868
		Hector-Louis Langevin, acclaimed from 21 November 1878	Conservative	1878
Two Mountains		Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Conservative	1876
Vaudreuil		Jean-Baptiste Mongenais	Conservative	1878
Verchères		Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	1867
Yamaska		Charles Gill	Conservative	1874
		Fabien Vanasse dit Vertefeuille from 7 July 1879	Conservative	1879

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 4th Canadian Parliament

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause	Retained
New Westminster	March 9, 1882	Thomas Robert McInnes		Independent	Joshua Homer		Liberal-Conservative	Called to the Senate.	No
Simcoe South	February 16, 1882	William Carruthers Little		Liberal-Conservative	Angus McIsaac		Conservative	Death	Yes
Northumberland West	December 19, 1881	James Cockburn		Conservative	George Guillet		Conservative	Appointed Chairman of the Commission to collect, examine and classify the Statutes passed by the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, since Confederation	Yes
Argenteuil	August 17, 1881	John Joseph Caldwell Abbott		Liberal-Conservative	John Joseph Caldwell Abbott		Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Pictor	June 18, 1881	James McDonald		Conservative	John McDougald		Liberal-Conservative	Appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.	Yes
Colchester	June 18, 1881	Thomas McKay		Liberal-Conservative	Archibald McLelan		Conservative	Called to the Senate.	Yes
Colchester	March 31, 1881	Joshua Spencer Thompson		Liberal-Conservative	James Reid		Liberal-Conservative	Death	Yes
Northumberland East	March 25, 1881	Joseph Keeler		Liberal-Conservative	Darius Crouter		Independent Liberal	Death	No
Bellechasse	March 19, 1881	Achille Larue		Liberal	Guillaume Amyot		Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Charlevoix	March 19, 1881	Joseph-Stanislas Perrault		Conservative	Simon-Xavier Cimon		Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Carleton	February 16, 1881	George Heber Connell		Independent	David Irvine		Liberal	Death	No
Joliette	December 9, 1880	Louis François Georges Baby		Conservative	Lewis Arthur McConville		Conservative	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	Yes
Oxford North	December 9, 1880	Thomas Oliver		Liberal	James Sutherland		Liberal	Death	Yes
Montmorency	December 9, 1880	Auguste-Réal Angers		Conservative	Pierre-Vincent Valin		Conservative	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec.	Yes
Quebec County	November 20, 1880	Adolphe-Philippe Caron		Conservative	Adolphe-Philippe Caron		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Militia and Defence.	Yes
Bagot	November 20, 1880	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau		Conservative	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as President of the Privy Council.	Yes
Brome	October 18, 1880	Edmund Leavens Chandler		Liberal	David Ames Manson		Liberal-Conservative	Death	No
Selkirk	September 10, 1880	Donald Smith		Independent Conservative	Thomas Scott		Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Ontario North	August 28, 1880	George Wheler		Liberal	George Wheler		Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes
West Toronto	August 28, 1880	John Beverly Robinson		Conservative	James Beaty, Jr.		Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario.	Yes
Châteauguay	April 17, 1880	Luther Hamilton Holton		Liberal	Edward Holton		Liberal	Death	Yes
Montmorency	February 14, 1880	Pierre-Vincent Valin		Conservative	Auguste-Réal Angers		Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Argenteuil	February 12, 1880	Thomas Christie		Liberal	John Joseph Caldwell Abbott		Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Cornwall	January 27, 1880	Darby Bergin		Liberal-Conservative	Darby Bergin		Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Lanark North	January 22, 1880	Daniel Galbraith		Liberal	Donald Greenfield MacDonell		Liberal	Death	Yes
Provencher	December 30, 1879	Joseph Dubuc		Conservative	Joseph Royal		Conservative	Appointed a Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench for Manitoba.	Yes
Durham West	November 17, 1879	Harvey William Burk		Liberal	Edward Blake		Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Blake.	Yes
Cape Breton	October 23, 1879	Hugh McLeod		Liberal-Conservative	William Mackenzie McLeod		Liberal-Conservative	Death	Yes
Yale	September 29, 1879	Edgar Dewdney		Conservative	Francis Jones Barnard		Conservative	Appointed Indian Commissioner of Manitoba and the North West Territories.	Yes
Bonaventure	August 26, 1879	Théodore Robitaille		Conservative	Pierre-Clovis Beauchesne		Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.	Yes
Yamaska	July 7, 1879	Charles-Ignace Gill		Conservative	Fabien Vanasse dit Vertefeuille		Conservative	Appointed a judge to the Quebec Superior Court.	Yes
Niagara	March 20, 1879	Patrick Hughes		Liberal	Josiah Burr Plumb		Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Hastings East	February 25, 1879	John White		Conservative	John White		Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Charlevoix	February 13, 1879	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay		Liberal	Joseph-Stanislas Perrault		Conservative	Death	No
Beauharnois	January 9, 1879	Michael Cayley		Conservative	Joseph Gédéon H. Bergeron		Conservative	Death	Yes
Marquette	November 30, 1878	John A. Macdonald		Liberal-Conservative	Joseph O'Connell Ryan		Liberal	MacDonald was elected in several seats simultaneously, resigned to run in Ministerial by-election in Victoria.	No
Three Rivers	November 21, 1878	William McDougall		Conservative	Hector-Louis Langevin		Conservative	Resignation to provide a seat for Langevin.	Yes
Joliette	November 14, 1878	Louis François Georges Baby		Conservative	Louis François Georges Baby		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Inland Revenue.	Yes
Queens County	November 9, 1878	James Colledge Pope		Conservative	James Colledge Pope		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Marine and Fisheries.	Yes
Hastings North	November 6, 1878	Mackenzie Bowell		Conservative	Mackenzie Bowell		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Customs.	Yes
Terrebonne	November 6, 1878	Louis-Rodrigue Masson		Conservative	Louis-Rodrigue Masson		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Militia and Defence.	Yes
City of St. John	November 4, 1878	Samuel Leonard Tilley		Liberal-Conservative	Samuel Leonard Tilley		Liberal-Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Finance.	Yes
Pictou	November 4, 1878	James McDonald		Conservative	James McDonald		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Justice and Attorney General.	Yes
Russell	November 4, 1878	John O'Connor		Conservative	John O'Connor		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as President of the Privy Council.	Yes
Compton	November 4, 1878	John Henry Pope		Liberal-Conservative	John Henry Pope		Liberal-Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Agriculture.	Yes
Cumberland	November 4, 1878	Charles Tupper		Conservative	Charles Tupper		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Public Works.	Yes
Huron Centre	November 2, 1878	Horace Horton		Liberal	Richard John Cartwright		Liberal	Appointment in the office of the Auditor-General of Canada.	Yes

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